But then, through a strange coincidence, Maxwell manages to acquire Idal, a female otter, and the fascinating story starts once more.

Once you get past the wrappings, there's another story here, a gimlet-eyed view of the underside of LA's dreamworld of sun, freedom and new starts.

The story starts with the narration, by Tristram, of his own conception.

Paulo Coelho's The Alchemist also starts with a story about Narcissus, found ( we are told ) by the alchemist in a book brought by someone in the caravan.

" I've been working on a detective story that starts at the St Giles in the Fields church in London for the last two years ," she told NME adding that she " loved detective stories " having been a fan of Sherlock Holmes and US crime author Mickey Spillane as a girl.

Ryan's story starts in Patriot Games and continues in Red Rabbit.

The comic starts with an all-new story, " Opposites Attack ", which is officially set before Web of Spider-Man # 75.

It starts as a tale of anthropomorphic characters " simply messing about in boats " but develops into a more complex story combining elements of mysticism with adventure and reflection on Edwardian Society.

The Osco story starts long before the first Osco was opened.

Beth, thirteen when the story starts, is described as shy, gentle and musical.

The lover starts to open the door and ... the story ends abruptly there.

Luke apparently changed the setting of the story: whereas Mark placed it in a desert, Luke starts the story in " a town

* The attic door and the third story: The longest one, it starts with Merrill finding out about the not-boarded attic door.

The story starts with Scrooge planning to participate in an auction for an old South African gold mine.

He starts off the chapter by saying " I feel it right to warn the reader that he can very well skip this chapter without losing the thread of the story as I have to tell, since for most part it is nothing more than the account of a conversation that I had with Larry.

The first story arc of the relaunched series, titled Superman and the Men of Steel for the collected edition, begins very early in Superman's career as he starts making a name for himself as a champion of the oppressed in Metropolis.

The story centers on Hanni, a precocious fourteen-year-old schoolgirl who starts a relationship with Franz, a nineteen-year-old worker in a chicken processing plant.

The TV show typically included a segment in which Gobel appeared with a guitar, started to sing, then got sidetracked into a story, with the song always left unfinished after fitful starts and stops, a comedy approach that prefigured the Smothers Brothers.

One of them starts with a sentence and then the other continues until the story becomes sexually explicit, and it provides an opportunity for the partners to express their sexual fantasies.

Tess confronts Katharine and starts to tell her side of the story.

" They comment that this ending brought Jim full circle, as he starts and finishes the story in bed in a deserted hospital.

Spielberg explained, " I wanted to make Close Encounters a very accessible story about the everyday individual who has a sighting that overturns his life, and throws it in to complete upheaval as he starts to become more and more obsessed with this experience.

The traditional Phillips curve story starts with a wage Phillips Curve, of the sort described by A. W.

The story of A Christmas Carol starts on Christmas Eve in 1843, with Scrooge at his place of business.

and, `` I do think that families are the most beautiful things in all the world '', burst out Jo some five hundred pages later in that popular story of the March family, which had first appeared when Henrietta was eight ; ;

Its permanent collection, numbering some eight million works, is amongst the largest and most comprehensive in existence and originates from all continents, illustrating and documenting the story of human culture from its beginnings to the present.

The last story is probably the most famous, having inspired at least eight movie adaptations ( two of which are now considered to be lost ), one animated movie, two documentaries and a video game.

Odin responds that even if this is true, Loki ( in a story otherwise unattested ) once spent eight winters beneath the earth as a woman milking cows, and during this time bore children.

Elements of the story — known as Gamehendge — grew to include an additional eight songs.

Rodat conceived the film's story in 1994 when he saw a monument dedicated to eight siblings killed in the American Civil War.

The earliest source of this story is found in chapter eight of Saint Sulpicius Severus's biography of Saint Martin of Tours.

He wrote his first story at eight years old entitled Injection.

As noted, much of the material for the dime novels came from the story papers, which were weekly, eight page newspaper-like publications, varying in size from tabloid to a full fledged newspaper format, and usually costing five or six cents.

The manuscript contains eight miniatures: the wheel of fortune ( which actually is an illustration from the songs CB 14 – 18, but was placed by the book binder as the cover ), an imaginative forest, a pair of lovers, scenes from the story of Dido and Aeneas, a scene of drinking beer, and three scenes of playing games – dice, tables, and chess.

The Golden Spike Tower and Visitor Center is an eight story building which overlooks the expansive railroad staging area.

The heart of the movie is a story of two sisters-Sveta ( thirteen years old ) and Dina ( eight ).

Twenty eight vessels, with a total value estimated to be close to $ 200, 000 ( at a time when a very large two story home in Essex would have been worth no more than $ 1, 000 ), were destroyed by the British.

The eight story patient tower is being converted to all private rooms, and all cardiac services will be combined to one area.

* Dr. Nikki Alexander ( Emilia Fox ) has appeared since the series eight story " Nowhere Fast ".

The last paperback digest, collects eight stories, including one Op story.

In October 1990, Lenihan changed his story, claiming ( even though he had said the opposite for eight years ) that he had played " no hand, act or part " in pressurising President Hillery that night.

He decided to raise the issue of the calls again on the programme, given that in the preceding week Lenihan changed his story of eight years and had now denied twice, first in a student debate, then in an Irish Press interview with Emily O ' Reilly, making any calls.

This book recounts a very detailed version of the story based on an exclusive account given by eight of the then-paroled robbers ( Edwards, Goody, Hussey, Wisby, Welch, James, White and Cordrey with contradictory versions by Reynolds and Biggs ).

The most extreme example was the eight story Windermere complex at the southwest corner of Ninth Avenue and 57th Street — two blocks from Central Park.

The eight sections come together to tell a story of murder and intrigue, intersecting the life of a young woman, Victoria Wren, the first incarnation of V. The title is a hint as to how this chapter is to be understood: Stencil imagines each of the eight viewpoints as he reconstructs — we do not know on how much knowledge and how much conjecture — this episode.

For the first eight months Scamp had continuity and was written by Ward Greene, the King Features editor whose short story and novelization contributed to the development of the storyline for Lady and the Tramp.

In the 1952 film musical Hans Christian Andersen based on the life of the Danish poet and story-teller Hans Christian Andersen, starring Danny Kaye, the story of The Emperor's New Clothes is told in The King's New Clothes as one of the film's eight songs.

Directed by Dani and featuring Luana as the ruthless agent Rosabel, the eight minute short features three Belladonna songs ; Black Swan, Foreverland, and Holy Flame which were specifically written and recorded for the script to reflect Belladonna's flavor of delivering story driven music in a theatrical atmosphere.